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Launched in 2015, Black Mail is your source for lesser-known black history facts. We celebrate history makers, movements, and moments that have shaped our world.
Rare Picture of The Sphinx
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Rare picture of the Sphinx before the noses were severed off!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciousness stupidity. -Dr. Martin Luther…Tuesday Trivia: Answer
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Which fact about African American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is NOT true? He was a US Marshal His…
Tuesday Trivia: Test Your Knowledge
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Which fact about African American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is NOT true? He was a US Marshal His…
Guess Who?
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Which civil rights activist is featured with her husband in this photo?
The Medical & Surgical Observer: The First Medical Journal Focused on African American Health Care
Reading time: 2 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! On December 1, 1892, Dr. Miles V. Lynk (1851-1957) founded the first national medical journal for…
Sarah Collins Rudolph: Survivor of The 1963 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Reading time: 2 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Many are aware that 4 young girls lost their lives during the 1963 bombing of 16th…
W.E.B. DuBois Quote: “The COST of liberty is LESS THAN the price of repression.”
Reading time: 1 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!!
Black Violin: The Dynamic Duo of Hip Hop & Classical Music
Reading time: 2 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! Kevin Marcus and Will Baptiste are the duo that is, “Black Violin”. The two first met…
The Niagara Movement: A Predecessor of The NAACP
Reading time: 4 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! The civil rights organization known as the “Niagara Movement” was organized by W.E.B. DuBois, William Trotter,…
“The Brownies”: The First African American Children’s Magazine
Reading time: 3 minutesBlack History: Special Delivery!! The Brownies Book is recognized as the first magazine published for African American children and youth.…